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USS Hawaii (CB-3) [A 1] was intended to be the third member of the Alaska-class large cruisers. It was the first United States Navy ship to be named after the then- Territory of Hawaii . Because Hawaii ' s construction was delayed by higher-priority ships like aircraft carriers , her keel was not laid until December 1943, about two years after ...
USS Hawaii (SSN-776), a Virginia-class submarine, is the first commissioned warship of the United States Navy to be named for the 50th state. (A previous large cruiser, or battlecruiser , USS Hawaii (CB-3) was launched, but never commissioned, and was named after the Territory of Hawaii .)
The Alaska-class were six large cruisers ordered before World War II for the United States Navy (USN), of which only two were completed and saw service late in the war. The USN designation for the ships of this class was 'large cruiser' (CB), a designation unique to the Alaska-class, and the majority of leading reference works consider them as such.
The design of the Lexington-class battlecruisers was approved on 30 June 1916 and six were planned as part of the massive 1916 building program, ... USS Hawaii (CB-3)
Alaska and Hawaii did not become states until 1959, after the end of battleship building, but the battlecruiser, or "Large Cruiser," USS Alaska was built during World War II and her sister, USS Hawaii, was begun but never completed.
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
USS Canberra (CAG-2) USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) USS Providence (CLG-6) USS Albany (CG-10) Artist conception of Strike cruiser Mark I variant (1976 version) With the exception of the purpose-built nuclear powered guided missile cruiser Long Beach, all of the early guided missile cruisers were converted heavy or light cruisers from the World War ...
USS Alaska was the lead ship of the Alaska-class "large cruisers" which served with the United States Navy during the end of World War II. She was the first of two ships of her class to be completed, followed only by Guam ; four other ships were ordered but were not completed before the end of the war.